The Bulls played a defensive counterattack on a fast break. Jordan took off halfway from the free throw line and used a gliding tomahawk dunk while walking in the air, turning the entire United Center into a boiling volcano.
Lao Wang struggled to cross the center line in two steps, and everything was over.
However, veteran Cartwright was still lagging behind him. When the Bulls faced the Suns, they did not have the capital to defeat the Suns with more.
"Rookie, don't you participate in defense? Do you have the privilege of not defending in the Suns?"
Jordan returned to the defensive end, stood on the right three-point line, and yelled at Lao Wang in the low post.
"The privilege belongs to your grandfather! Just throw it outside. If you dare to rush in today, see what I do to you!"
Lao Wang glared at Jordan, wishing he could rush over and kill this trash-talking thing.
This time, he still wanted to go in.
The two big men from the Bulls couldn't hold him down at all. The skinny one who just stole the ball from him flew away as soon as he hit it.
Bang bang bang, Kevin Johnson took the ball to the top of the arc and made a gesture to open up the game.
Barkley pulled from the basket to the right wing, leaving the basket empty.
At this time, in the low position on the left wing, Cartwright was entangled with Wang Tiejun, as if they were glued together.
"Bang!"
Seeing that the basket was empty, Lao Wang suddenly made a strong effort to break his opponent's grip, then immediately bypassed his opponent and pounced towards the basket.
Cartwright quickly turned around and chased after him, but he was already half a step too late.
The ball was hoisted in from the top of the arc, and Grant, who had just been pulled out on the right wing, had already pounced back.
But this time the cooperation was better, and Grant had no chance to steal the ball. But when Wang Tiejun rushed to the basket to catch the ball, Grant had already jumped in front of him, and Cartwright followed behind him, forming a trap around him.
"Get away!"
He immediately put the ball together, stayed still, used his left foot as a supporting foot, stepped back with his right foot, and at the same time leaned back with force, and with a bang, his back hit the chest of Cartwright who was following him.
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"Well!"
Cartwright was too old, and his legs and knees were still injured. How could he hold up Lao Wang? He simply fell to the ground.
"Bang!"
The next moment, Lao Wang moved his right foot again, stepped forward, and received another fierce iron mountain blow. Grant, who weighed less than 100 kilograms, fell over in response.
Under the ferocious series of blows, he completely wiped out the Bulls' defensive power at the basket. Looking around, he happened to see the shocked expression of Jordan on the right wing. The next moment, the beast burst out.
"Bang!"
In the dead silence of the United Center, Wang Tiejun used a brutal two-handed slam to completely freeze the league's hottest first home court.
"Is this the restricted area sweeper?"
The on-site commentator gasped, and after reacting, he roared loudly: "Why didn't you blow the whistle? He must have committed a foul. He knocked down two of us. There is no way there was no foul..."
"Shh!"
The fans also reacted, and the huge boos were like a tsunami, sweeping every corner and everyone's heart.
At this time, the hanging screen is also playing back the scene just now.
"There's no walking, no elbow lifting, no shoulder sinking, how is that possible?" The commentator and the home fans couldn't accept it.
They didn't see Wang Tiejun's foul action. Instead, they saw the foul action of Grant and Cartwright. When these two people rushed to double-team, they both received an elbow, which made them very embarrassed.
In the ABC live broadcast booth, Bill Walton laughed and said: "In this offense, Old K strongly demonstrated his ability to sweep the penalty area. The Bulls' two major inside players are too old and too young."
"He must have a unique power-generating technique in his back-hitting," said John Hanks.
"Yes, he doesn't need much room to exert force. Without fouling, he can explode with great power. This is his signature strong-playing technique, which can make up for his lack of explosive power."
Bill Walton said.
"No. 23, if you dare, rush in and dunk me!"
On the court, when Lao Wang returned to defense, he spat at Jordan.
"Damn it!"
Jordan's eyelids jumped, and he swore that this bastard rookie had no good intentions towards him. If he rushed in, he would definitely foul him.
"Pi Laosan, the same goes for you." Lao Wang turned his head and spat at Pippen again.
"you?"
Pippen almost fainted from anger when he said "Pi Lao San". I am obviously Pi Lao Er. Why do you demote me to a lower level?
The Bulls attack, with Pippen and Jordan active on the left and right wings respectively.
Pippen faced off against Ceballos and easily used a reverse run to get rid of his opponent. While cutting into the paint, he received the ball from BJ Armstrong.
At this time, on the weak side, Jordan got rid of Dan Mulley and was quickly cutting in from the right elbow toward the basket.
Pippen attracted the defensive attention of Lao Wang, hit the ground and passed the ball. The ball entered the paint area from Lao Wang's side and was picked up by Jordan who cut in.
Lao Wang looked back and saw Jordan taking off from the first step and flying towards the basket.
"Bang!"
A one-handed dunk set the United Center on fire.
"Privilege, your eyes are so good at defending!" Jordan turned back to defend and threw some trash talk at the same time.
"What a privilege!" Lao Wang cursed.
In anger, he entered the paint from the free throw line, took a step down with Cartwright on his back, then turned around, jammed his opponent, and started asking for the ball.
"Double team!"
On the sidelines, Phil Jackson immediately shouted.
The rest of the Bulls quickly shrank towards the basket. As long as the ball dared to be passed in, there would definitely be a situation where one was trapped.
For this ball, the Bulls would rather let go of the rest of the Suns than let Old K play it.
Kevin Johnson gritted his teeth. If my brother wants to pay back something, then pass it on.
As soon as the ball flew towards Lao Wang, the Bulls' double-team attack immediately began, with several people jumping in at the same time.
"Crack!"
Wang's left elbow fought against Cartwright behind him, and he grabbed the ball with his right hand. At this time, Grant and Jordan pounced from the left, and Pippen pounced from the right.
The next moment, he smashed the ball with both hands, moved his left foot back, inserted it between Cartwright's legs, and then leaned back with a sudden force.
"Bang!"
Cartwright was indeed old. He couldn't bear it and fell to the ground.
"Pah! Pah!"
The two big hands of Jordan and Pippen hit Lao Wang's hand and the ball at the same time, but he had already smashed the ball to death and was not knocked away.
The next moment, Lao Wang used his left foot as the axis and turned around violently to exert force.
Jordan and Pippen, who were wrapped around him, were driven by the huge force, staggered, and fell to the floor at the same time.
But Lao Wang turned around successfully.
"Crack!"
As soon as he faced the basket, Grant slapped his ball-holding hands hard.
"Get away!"
He yelled angrily, exerted his strength, and the 98-kilogram Grant fell down.
Wang Tiejun glanced coldly at Jordan and the other four people at his feet, then stood up.
"..."
Of the five players, only B.J. Armstrong at the top of the key was still standing. All the people who went in to double-team collapsed, and the United Center was completely silent.
"Bang!"
With a violent slamming of the basket, all the home fans couldn't help but feel excited, and their eyes instantly focused on the person on their own basket.
"What a scary restricted area sweeper." This is the only thought everyone has.
"yeah!"
Buckley and others rushed over excitedly.
"Ahhhh..."
The Suns bench was already boiling with excitement, and the white towels were waving like victory flags.
At the ABC live broadcast, Bill Walton roared excitedly: "Oh ho ho, this is the penalty area sweeper! He single-handedly completely swept away the Bulls' penalty area, making his Bulls' penalty area a no-man's land, with no one standing.
area, where he is the only one who dominates.
The emergence of Old K symbolizes that there will be a new type of big center in the league that is completely different from the three super centers, a monster center. Oh, he is so powerful!"
"Hoo ho ho..."
After falling to the ground, Wang Tiejun, panting violently, stood under the basket, looked down at the four Bulls players at his feet, and gasped: "That's it, have you really won two championships?"
"you?"
Jordan was so angry that he turned over and got up.
At this time, Barkley and others rushed forward, pushed past Jordan and others, and celebrated with Lao Wang.
"Old guy, find a way to punish me. This is the only way you can defeat us. You have already done that, and you can continue to do that. This is your ability."
Lao Wang continued to spit at Jordan through Barkley.
"Asshole, did I punish you?" Jordan roared angrily.
The Bulls attacked and called a timeout.
Sitting back on the bench, Jordan looked frighteningly gloomy.
Phil Jackson and general manager Jerry Krause were shocked by this offense and defense.
In this four-to-one defense, all four defenders were knocked down. With just one ball, the Bulls' internal weakness was completely exposed.
"Cartwright is too old. Although Grant is good, his tonnage is too light." Phil Jackson secretly thought.
"O'Neal and Old K will re-change the league's understanding of traditional big centers. The strength and tonnage will give all teams a headache. The light inside line will suffer too much in front of these two monsters. The offense can still be pulled out to shoot, and the defensive end will collapse at the touch of a button. How?
Defend?"
Jerry Krause thought more. He now realized that Cartwright-Grant's inside combination might be able to barely cope with the three super centers, but it was too fragile in the face of these two destructive monsters.
The Bulls and all other teams will face a more difficult situation, because everyone will have to face two completely different types of big centers at the same time. One is the three super centers based on technology and agility, speed, and jump shots.
, one is two giant beasts dominated by strength and tonnage.
In this way, the configuration requirements for internal lines also have completely different dualities.
It requires not only the speed and agility of the three super centers, but also the strength and tonnage of the two behemoths.
When he thought of this, he got a headache.
The only possibility that can solve this problem is that the three super centers and the two behemoths do not belong to the same era.
In other words, when the two behemoths grow up, the three super centers may have become old. At that time, they will only have to deal with one, and then they will just find two human shields who can handle it.
"Lock down their outside offense, we need to strengthen breakthroughs and mid-range shots, and use Lao K's weak defense ability to beat him..."
At this time, Phil Jackson was arranging tactics.
The timeout ends and the game restarts.
"Whoa!"
Jordan broke through with the ball, but it was a fake shot and he hit a mid-range shot.
Danmarli was knocked down directly and was in a very embarrassed state.
His level is still too far away from Jordan. As a white man, his physical fitness is far inferior to Jordan's, and his scoring ability is even worse than Jordan's. The same is true for defense. Every time he encounters Jordan, he will be beaten on both offense and defense.
In the next few rounds, Wang Tiejun didn't do much. He grabbed two backcourt rebounds and made a big block. He didn't attack. Two consecutive attacks at the basket were regarded as blood-breaking attacks. He had to recover his health first.
In the 5th minute of the first quarter, at 14:12, the Suns took the lead.
The Suns attacked, and Lao Wang squeezed towards the basket again.
"Crack!"
As he caught the ball with one hand, Grant rushed from the side and hit him hard on the arm, knocking the ball away and the whistle blew.
In the live broadcast of ABC TV station, Bill Walton said: "This is probably the only thing the Bulls inside can do, let old K get to the free throw line."
"Old K's free throw skills are not very good. His current free throw shooting percentage is..."
John Hanks immediately started looking for information. After finding it, he said excitedly: "59%. With Old K's shooting percentage at the basket, the Bulls will make a profit."
Bill Walton glanced at his partner with disdain, feeling that he would find a new partner sooner or later. Then he took the data sheet, looked at it and analyzed: "The free throw shooting rate of 59% is indeed very low.
Similar to O'Neal from the Magic.
But if you look at Lao K's free throw rate in the last ten games, it has increased to 63%. This shooting rate is still a bit low, but this shooting rate has made foul tactics of little practical significance.
Maybe it can be fought at critical moments, but it has no greater tactical effect and is purely a meaningless foul and not cost-effective."
John Hanks was stunned and could only nod in disappointment.
As if to support Bill Walton's statement, Wang then hit two free throws to help the team lead the Bulls.
Two rounds later, he entered the basket again.
Cartwright stopped defending and went directly forward. He immediately pushed outwards, signaling the top of the arc for a lob.
The ball was lobbed in, and Grant, Pippen, and Jordan jumped in at the same time.
Cartwright tried his best to push back against Lao Wang, but Wang Tiejun suddenly released his left elbow and leaned outward. The former groaned and collapsed.
When the ball arrived, he immediately jumped into the air and grabbed the hanging basketball with both hands.
Kevin Johnson's ball hung very well, and he didn't need to make any adjustments. The moment he caught the ball, he hit it directly towards the basket.
"Bang!"
When the three Jordans rushed to the basket, the strong sound of the basket exploded just above their heads, and it was too late.
"You can't go around. Old K's strength is too great. Cartwright can't bear it at all. He is pushed away from the basket. He must defend. The Bulls need a big-tonnage center."
John Hanks shouted in the ABC live broadcast booth.
"No, Cartwright is the heaviest at 111 kilograms, and his first substitute Will Perdo is 110 kilograms. But Perdo is only 27 years old, 9 years younger. You can let Perdo play, he is more powerful.
and vitality." Bill Walton said.
"Perdo?"
John Hanks took a look at the information and said: "No. 11 in the first round selected by the Bulls in 1988. He averaged 4.8 points and 5 rebounds in 16 minutes per game. He is a role player."
Speaking of this, he sighed: "The Suns are really lucky. The Bulls used the No. 11 pick in the first round to select a center who is a role player, and they still treat him like a treasure and stay in the team and are reluctant to trade. Mr. Colangelo
But I randomly picked up a giant beast on the street."
Bill Walton laughed a few times and said, "So I quite admire Colangelo and Mr. Krause's vision."
John Hanks was startled, then nodded and said, "Yes, Mr. Claus wanted to sign Old K with a big contract."
At this time, Jordan caused a foul on Dan Malley and required a free throw.
The first free throw was made at the eighth minute of the first quarter, 22:20, and the Bulls were still two points behind.
Phil Jackson replaced veteran Carter White and replaced him with Wilperdo.
The Suns also made substitutions. Wang Tiejun went to rest while Barkley continued to play.
He didn't take many shots in the first quarter, but he was all attacking at the basket. He made 3 of 3 shots and 2 of 2 free throws. He scored 8 points, 3 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 block, and 1 foul.
At the end of the first quarter, at 30:30, the Bulls equalized the score.
Jordan was on full fire in the first quarter, making 5 of 9 shots and 5 of 5 free throws, scoring 15 points, accounting for 50% of the team's scoring.
In the second quarter, Wang Tiejun came on the court from the beginning.
Barkley rested off the court, and he was the main force in low post offense.
The first goal was the Bulls' attack. Grant dropped Jerod Mustav and cut inside to the basket. He couldn't get back in time and successfully made a layup.
"Old K, be careful, this guy is very good at off the ball and very good at cutting inside." Dan Marley ran over and warned.
"Understood." He nodded.
He glanced at Grant, a light power forward. He had the biggest headache with such an inside line. Fortunately, he didn't need to be the main defender.
Sun attack.
Wang Tiejun and Perdo face off.
The Suns' backup point guard Knight made a tactical gesture. After seeing the low post on the left wing, he immediately turned around and slipped to the bottom. Perdo immediately turned around to pursue him.
But at this time, he suddenly took it back and opened the distance between him and his opponent. At this time, the ball was passed down and he caught it.
Perdo hurriedly rushed forward. At this time, he started the bear step, his center of gravity sank, his left foot moved inward, and the moment he heeled with his right foot, his feet stopped, six forces merged into one, and the iron mountain suddenly exploded.
The short and rapid Xiongbu step is not characterized by speed. The advantage is this short-distance burst, which is especially beneficial for grabbing positions in basketball.
Whoever takes the first position will be able to take advantage of the situation.
"Bang!"
Perdo, who was caught off guard, collapsed.
At this time, Grant had returned to defend the basket and formed a help defense against the basket.
But Old K did not throw a hook, but took off directly from the step, jumped directly over Perdo's body, and met Grant with a brutal one-handed dunk.
"The lion attacks the rabbit!"
In the ABC live broadcast booth, Bill Walton suddenly shouted loudly.
"Bang!"
As the explosive sound of hitting the basket sounded, Grant, who took off to block the shot, was knocked over without any resistance.
Another offensive round knocked out both of the Bulls' interior players, and the crazy United Center Arena fell into silence inertia.
"Hoo ho..."
Grant climbed up with difficulty. With his small body and a weight difference of more than 20 kilograms, he was hit by Wang Tiejun. Even if it was just once, it was enough for him. He was lucky not to be injured.
The referee blew the whistle and called Grant a battering foul.